Dowlin's Mill and the valleys feeding to the Ruidoso above Glencoe, what is today the town of Ruidoso.

There was no appreciable development in this area until the early 1900s; Dowlins Mill was the center of things for the early years. At this point the freight road came up from Tularosa and split; going either north toward Ft. Stanton and Lincoln or going east down to San Patricio and then down the Hondo.